The Osceola times., 1887-07-16
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

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at Fort Smith q few days ago. While
attempting TO couple an engine to
freight-car he missed the coupling, and
the front end Of the freight-car ran upor
the cowcatcher, crushing and manglng
Blakely's body The engine ccupling-link
ran into his bowels. and his left thigh
and leg were broken. The thigh bone
was driven into the intestines.
The Little Rock coroner was notified
the other day that the remains OF coll
/ ored woman had been found on the Iron
/ Mountain track, three miles south OF the
/ city. He Immediately proceeded 10 the
scene and there found a most sickentng
sight An unknown colored woman ha1
been caught by south bound train and
and literally torn to pieces, the remains
being scattered along the track for dis
tauce of three hundred yards. The legs
were cut of, the head crushed and the
| trunk mashed and cut TO pieces. She had
worn tall white hat, black jersey, a
brown linen duster, and had carried
her shoes and a small bundle In her hands.
The remains were ordered buried by the
coroner.
The hist battle field Of Pea Rid ge or
| Elkhorn is TO receive large proportion
of attention this summer. Work has been
commenced on a monument which VIII
be erected TO the memory of Generals
Mccullough and Mcintosh who fell there
a little than twenty five years ago. 1t is
proposed TO have a grand reunion OF the
survivors OF those who passed through
that conflict The reunion is to be Au-
gust ESQ one of the events of the re-
union being the unvailing Of the monu'
ment
l.o,, nd
vertised as being lost in Little Rock, In
formation comes which may lead to his
recovery: A boy, eight or nine years OF
age, who says his name is Charley Hud-
son, was left at Butlervle by a man
named Osborn, who, the little boy says,
persuaded him to leave Little Rock,
where he had been raised by some old
people, his parents being dead.
The cities of Cincinnati, Portia, Rector
aud Smithville, this State, have been
made postal money-order Offices.
Arkansas claims to have the greatest
crop of every thing ever raised in the
State.
The first copies Of the Fortieth Arkan-
sas Reports have been received from tho
printer at the Secretary OF States Office
Mr.. W. II. Werner has filed suit at Little
Rock against the Western Union Tele-
graph Company for sl00 damages occa-
stoned by the company's delay in deliver
ing two kilograms.
The Lost Louisiana Mining Company
will soon have completed a $4,000 stamp
mill for the reatment of free milling gold
ore. The company has over five hundred
tons of smelter ore on the dump in readi-
ness for run.
Governor Hughes has offered 500 re-
ward each for the arrest and conviction
| OF Low Blythe and Frank Blythe, of Scott
County. for an assault with latent TO kill
upon John McCutcheon. The offonse was
committed July is 1884
Mr.. Thomas Orr has been commissioned
sheriff OF Miller County, in accordance
with recent decision Of the Supreme
| Court In which Orr contested the election
OF {. +. Dixon to that Office
Alex. Ridenhour, charged with mur-
dering Sheriff Black OF Lamar County,
Tex, two years ago, was arrested at Null
berry, this State, few days ago. He
confesses being the man wanted.
Captain w. b. West, one of the wealth.
lest and most prominent citizens OF East
| ern Arkansas, died at his residence in
Helena a few DAYS ago, after an Illness OF
| two weeks. Inhamamtlon OF the brain
/ was the the cause OF his death. Captain
West was buried with Masonic honors.
Ga the 9th Inst the work Of chan gin z
the Arkansas Midland railroad from
| Helena to Clarendon to stan lard guage
railroad was begun. The distance is forty
| five miles, and it is understood the line
| will be extended to Little Rock,
Articles OF association OF the Little
| Rock & State Line railroad, l6) miles
| long, running in westerly direction
| through Pulaski, Saline, Garland, Mont
gomery and Polk counties to the Indian
| Territory, have been filed In the Secretary
| of States office. Capital Stock, 1900, 000
Governor Hughes has grated a full
| pardon to James Knox Polk McGhec Of
| Perry County, confined in the State peni-
| tentary since 1888 on a life sentence for
the murder Of Lazarus = Brooks, OF Yell
| County. The application TO the Governor
| was signed by the county judge, every
county oficer, farmers, State Senator,
Representatives, the jurors who tried the
case and about one thousand citizens Of
Yell County.
Carlisle and Jacksonville le were visited,
| few days since, by a severe wind and
rain storm. The Baptist Church at Car
| Isle was blown down, and several other
| building were completely destroyed. II
| is impossible to estimate the loss 10 crops
and property. 30 far as ascertained, there
has been no loss Of life.
| An industrious and Woodworking color
cd man, named John Caverren, at Porl Ir
| Grove, lost his life by drowning at Big
/ Creek, few days ago. He was working
with some logs in the water and was
caught between two of them, aud before
| aid could reach him he was drowned. He
| leaves wife and children.
The stone cutters employed in the cree
ton Of the Pulaski County Court house
recently made a strike for higher wages.
| They were receiving s., 80 per day, but,
considering that amount inadequate, do
manded an advance OF fifty cents per day,
so far their demand has not been com
Piled with, and it is understood that new
men will be employed
| Monday last Texarkana, Miller County,
held her first term of Federal court.
| This court was created by the last ses-
sion of the last Congress- and has juris-
| dction Of some eleven counties in the
southwestern portion Of the State nearest
TO Terarkana. Other jurisdictions are
cut up somewhat. Little Rock is not,
however, especially affected. The jud &c
and United States dis' rict attorney from
Little Rock will run the court. decreased
importance Of Texarkana, together with
a large amount Of Federal court cases
arising in that section OF the State, rem
dered the establishment of this branch Of
the court necessary, and it is expected
great good will iuure from it. So.
The rain has got in its work.
c. o. Jacko, colored, has sued f. A.
| ruliar aleo coIore1 editor of the Little